2017 / 2018 Valemount Conditions and Updates

[Mike270412]

That's ok. We'll just stop and clean the snow off it. We want to ride anyways,not spend all day cleaning up your junk.

Yah good luck lol never seen anyone be successful at that yet haha

 

[turboetech]

I cleaned about 2 ft of fresh pow off it today maxwell....Wil knock the fresh off it tomorrow on our way by.....sleddin tomorrow again then headin out before the weekend warriors arrive..... I broke trail up today trails great only 9 sleds up Allen today....only went back to hill limb today rode hard hit nothing great rip lots of new pow

 

[maxwell]

Thanks you guys are awesome

 

[iceman5689]

It's been done , pulled this bent up and trackless cat out of caribou last yr with the help of a extra pull from RXN out of the bowl.

 

[Vosh]

Not trying to take this sideways, but how are the other areas for snow and accessibility?
Chappel for example.

 

[TPOWER]

Well boys and girls here's the scoop on Valemount .
Sorry Storch, Catman and turbo but I gotta let the "Cat" out of the bag lol
Allen Creek Thursday Nov 16
- it is still early season
- 8 inches in the parking lot
- Full snow coverage on trail , I will assume after 40 sleds today it will be iced up pretty good .
- probed 120 - 160 cm in various areas
- snowed most of day , visibility poor
- 16-20 inches of fresh dropped this week
- creeks are still open and lots of dangers still hiding under the 2-3 ft of powder but we are seeing a good base .
- we played for 4 hrs with no carnage so we figured that was a good day .
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I have no info on Clemina or chapple ,

Here's some pics , it was a horrible day lol

 

[dragontamer]

Thanks for the update

 

[skegpro]

If anyone's up over the weekend and wouldn't mind digging out my sled in caribou bowl it would be appreciated. Just not sure how much it's going to snow and still waiting for a break in weather for the bird. Who knows it might be fine

What happened man?

 

[dgjordan]

Old trail im assuming still hey?

 

[Jjanke]

Old trail im assuming still hey?

Ya they wont open the gate for the new trail until there is enough to groom and get a good trail base set up. I would assume 1 more dump and they should be able to consider it.

 

[dgjordan]

10 4 thanks

 

[storch]

Road groundhog today and untouched and only 7 sleds in today epic day!!! Yes on the trail to Allen was good yesterday but wont take long to turn to ****!! Hope all you boys had a great day at Allen.. I had my 2 days and need to nurse my wounds!!!
Starting with some rum and a hot tub!!

 

[Caper11]

Road groundhog today and untouched and only 7 sleds in today epic day!!! Yes on the trail to Allen was good yesterday but wont take long to turn to ****!! Hope all you boys had a great day at Allen.. I had my 2 days and need to nurse my wounds!!!
Starting with some rum and a hot tub!!

How was the access to groundhog?

 

[Valemount Skier]

Clemina Friday Nov 17

Rode from parking lot where maybe 5-8cms. Road was recently plowed by property owner until just before 4k so very thin to that point but OK beyond. I toured up from road to Hill-Climb area. There has been lots of wind with the recent snow so can go from 100cm to 10cm really quickly when passing over high spots. Dug a couple of pits at about 6600ft, north-east and south aspect. About 110cm total snow depth at both locations. Both had a 5cm thick layer about 50cm down that gave moderate compression test results above CTM12-14 and below CTM17-19. Wind-effected north-east aspect was giving easy results down about 15cm in recent storm snow. A pseudo-rutshblock test (column not isolated on sides or back) above each pit failed on top of the crust on the first jump.

Thanks to whoever broke trail on Thursday. And the snowman at 11km is still doing fine.

 

[dragontamer]

Not conditions related but thought this was hilarious

https://www.facebook.com/mike.benoy.1/videos/10214595406867265/

 

[Jjanke]

To clarify, I’m 6’-4 and not touching the bottom. Ran outta gas today.

 

[VARDA]

Snow has been hammering the high country in the Valemount area. The alpine riding has been exceptional. Measurements from 150cm to over 200cms have been gathered over the weekend and its continuing to come down. We still need a good dose of lower valley snow to get the groomers out, so the trails are in early season condition and will begin to show signs of wear very soon.


Allen and Chappell creek riding areas have good early season access right from the staging area and amazing alpine conditions.


Clemina has good access from the main staging area as well, although we have had no reports of of alpine riding conditions.


Keep your wits about you and check www.avalanche.ca before your ride. If you do venture out, please report any of your findings to the Mountain Information Network through Avalanche Canada. This can be as simple as uploading a few pictures to the app.

 

[SaskSummit]

That’s great news we just left. On our way to catch the sun for a couple days and try out the snowbike. Can’t wait. Only 2 of us if anyone wants to join for a ride.

 

[TPOWER]

Chappel Creek Saturday Nov 18. Blower Powder all day with Mikey many #'s and Micheal from Wild Rose . Laughs and sticks all day never made it 2km from gas drop lol
Snowed all day leaving another 5 inches on the truck when we got down last night ,

 

[Bernoff]

Tell us how it went.